The alphabet of life ("DNA one of the most powerful clues of the existence of a spiritual reality")

Jerusalem Post ^ | July 8, 2009 | David Klinghoffer

[GodGunsGuts]

DNA are three letters full of paradox. What they represent remains little understood by the public, yet they are on everyone's tongue. Amid the chatter of popular culture, the truth gets lost that DNA is one of the most powerful clues we have of the existence of a spiritual reality, maybe to the existence of God...

[GodGunsGuts]

Ping!

[blowfish]

Thanks for the laugh! The article is essentially a series of unwarranted conclusions connected with punctuation marks.

[GodGunsGuts]

Thought you guys might be interested in the latest from David Klinghoffer.

All the best—GGG

[humblegunner]

[piytar]

Wonder what the atheists would do if some part of the “junk DNA” decoded to roughly “copyright 4,000,000 BC Archangel Michael, all rights reserved”? LOL

[dennisw]

It’s no fun bing a godless atheist. You don’t know whether to become a communist or a libertarian

[Ulysse]

pong

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Classical Newtonian physics cannot explain human consciousness.

Consciousness is a quantum mechanical phenomenon.

Without a conscious observer, nothing exists.

In order for the universe to exist, a conscious entity had to be there to bring it into existence.

The name I choose for that conscious entity is "God."

[Moonman62]

Wonder what the atheists would do if some part of the “junk DNA” decoded to roughly “copyright 4,000,000 BC Archangel Michael, all rights reserved”? LOL

I don't know, but the Young Earth Creationists would go nuts (well, more nuts than usual).

[GourmetDan]

"It is that while DNA codes for the cell's building blocks, the information needed to build the rest of the creature is seemingly, in large measure, absent."

It's not absent. It's just not in DNA.

The answer to the age-old question, "Which came first, the chicken or the egg" is staring scientist/philosophers in the face but they are blind to it because they hold an uncritical, philosophical commitment to naturalism.

[Moonman62]

The problem with DNA is that it’s material.

[Amadeo]

Excellent article.

“...a major step in the right direction”.

So true.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

An interesting approach.

[RegulatorCountry]

Classical Newtonian physics says the Earth goes 'round the sun.

General Relativity says it's a moot point, and relegates such belief to the philosophical and religious realms.

See Einstein's The Evolution Of Physics, published in 1938, for an unusually straightforward explanation of this, all in plain English, sans any formulae at all.

[RegulatorCountry]

I don't know, but the Young Earth Creationists would go nuts (well, more nuts than usual).

Why so? "Kinds" were known before their existence on Earth. Man is in the image of God.

If you're going to criticize, it's best to know what you're talking about.

[GourmetDan]

"Classical Newtonian physics says the Earth goes 'round the sun. General Relativity says it's a moot point, and relegates such belief to the philosophical and religious realms. See Einstein's The Evolution Of Physics, published in 1938, for an unusually straightforward explanation of this, all in plain English, sans any formulae at all."

You mean this?

“Can we formulate physical laws so that they are valid for all CS [coordinate systems], not only those moving uniformly, but also those moving quite arbitrarily, relative to each other? […] The struggle, so violent in the early days of science, between the views of Ptolemy and Copernicus would then be quite meaningless. Either CS could be used with equal justification. The two sentences: “the sun is at rest and the earth moves” or “the sun moves and the earth is at rest” would simply mean two different conventions concerning two different CS.”

Einstein, A. and Infeld, L. (1938) The Evolution of Physics, p.212 (p.248 in original 1938 ed.); Note: CS = coordinate system

[ElectricStrawberry]

Wonder what the atheists would do if some part of the “junk DNA” decoded to roughly “copyright 4,000,000 BC Archangel Michael, all rights reserved”? LOL

This atheist would LOVE it. That would put an end to the notion that the Earth is 6,000 years old and Man walked amongst dinosaurs.

....but here I thought God created everything....why would Archangel Michael get the copyright?

[ElectricStrawberry]

Here's the often misused part:

The problem with these demonstrations is that they always depend on intelligent guidance, that of the scientist in his lab, thus suggesting the very opposite lesson of the one intended.

Just because it takes a guy in a lab to simulate the conditions of billions of years ago to spontaneously generate an organic molecule....does not lead to the conclusion that there was a Designer (God) billions of years ago. That is a bogus false incorrect conclusion, but I'd not expect more.

......I Design experiments all the time. That does not make me God.

[ElectricStrawberry]

.....and just because something is not understood or discovered does not provide evidence of God. It means it’s not understood or discovered....nothing more.